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'Artists have a special sensitivity to what is possible and what awaits in the future.' Rainer Hofmann prepares for SPRING's future in solitude.

by Wijbrand Schaap
11 May 202029 March 2022
5 min read
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'I have only met one person for more than 3 minutes in five weeks. I live alone, I see people at the groceries, I take walks and bike rides, but apart from that I don't see anyone live.' Rainer Hofmann, artistic director of Spring, is experiencing a very different spring than intended, thanks to Corona. This month, the major Utrecht festival of innovative art was supposed to...

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The Encounter, Complicit / Simon McBurney, foto: Alex Aitchison

Why you should listen to Simon McBurney with headphones on between 15 and 22 May

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 May 202030 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, INTERNET, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

We are fairly bombarded to death with online theatre experiences. Frankly, I avoid them. I always thought theatre was something to be experienced live. Bobbing shoes are terrible, visible consumption when speaking is something I can't stand at the moment and the sound is always mediocre. I want live theatre, and nothing else. Leave TV to the TV makers, they have studied for that. Still...

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CULTURAL SECTOR APPEALS TO SUPPORT MEASURES PROVINCE

by one of our members
29 April 202029 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PRESS

Cultural institutions in the province of Utrecht say they "fear for the survival of the province's finely-meshed arts and culture sector" in a letter to the Provincial Executive and Provincial Council. They are sounding the alarm about the consequences of the corona measures. The letter was drafted by over a hundred institutions: venues, both larger ones in Amersfoort and Utrecht and smaller ones in other municipalities, museums,...

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Zeeland has already fallen. Why processing arts plan grant applications has become pointless, but may still need to go ahead.

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 April 202030 March 2022
3 min read
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Right now they are all still zooming or in an MS Teams meeting, the dozens of advisers and committee members appointed to assess the hundreds of grant applications for the new arts plan 2021-2024. But in all likelihood, they are no longer talking about the applications, but about how to deliver the news that the procedure is stalled. The province of Zeeland...

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This Was The News is more enjoyable without an audience than Sunday with Lubach

by Peter Olsthoorn
21 April 2020
4 min read
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We must continue to get through the already theatre-less weekends this spring and summer without Sunday with Lubach and This Was The News. Their season is over. The latter remained witty without an audience, Lubach in my opinion did not. How did that happen? Five weeks ago, when the shows first recorded it without an audience, it was noticeable that Sunday with...

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Dancing in times of Corona: all you need is yourself and a chair and a closet.

by Helen Westerik
15 April 2020
4 min read
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We are now a good month after the start of the intelligent lockdown. Slowly, a new normal is beginning to emerge, where we are no longer exclusively fanatically following all the tweets about corona. The concerns are still there and certainly where the cultural sector is concerned. The entire sector, nationally and internationally, is engaged in the titanic task of keeping the public...

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